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This program prepares students for human service professions. The essence of the community counseling, school counseling, college counseling, and student affairs professions is the ability to relate to another person in a way that is helpful and which facilitates growth. The basic knowledge and core skills required are essentially the same for all four programs. Therefore, the objectives of this program are to develop students who:
- Possess a high level of empathic counseling skills intended to facilitate client emotional growth.
- Exhibit the attitudinal dimensions of unconditional positive regard, empathic understanding, and congruence.
- Can articulate the developmental levels of others and can assist in their emotional growth and development.
- Have highly developed counseling skills and the ability to use them in assisting others.
- Are well grounded in a variety of counseling theories and can effectively use theoretical techniques.
- Are able to use a variety of assessment methods and skills in order to help individuals better meet their needs.
- Are knowledgeable about group dynamics and can facilitate group process.
- Are knowledgeable about and can identify skills for working effectively with various groups in our multicultural and diverse society.
- Understand the career development process and can identify skills for assisting others in career development.
- Can use research methods and evaluation skills to improve performance and evaluate literature.
- Can articulate a sense of themselves as beginning professionals.
- Adhere to ethical standards of professional practice.
- Can assess their own interventions (individual, group, and systems) in order to make them more effective.
- Can articulate or are knowledgeable about their professional competencies and limitations.